Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] selinux: reject a class permission count below its inherited common

[Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>]

On Jul 27, 2026 Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me> wrote:
> 
> security_get_permissions() maps an inherited common's permissions into
> an array sized by the class's own permissions.nprim, but class_read()
> takes that nprim verbatim from the policy image and never checks that it
> covers the common.  A class that inherits a common of N permissions while
> declaring a smaller nprim is accepted, and on load the common's
> permissions are written past the class-sized array -- an out-of-bounds
> heap write.
> 
> Reject a class whose permission count is below its inherited common's.
> Well-formed policies, where the class count already includes the
> inherited permissions, are unaffected.
> 
> Fixes: 55fcf09b3fe4 ("selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
> ---
>  security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Merged into selinux/stable-7.2, thanks!

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